Transport economy review

The Verkehrswirtschaftliche Rundschau was a monthly publication for the entire transport system in Austria .

It served as an organ of the public transport company

• ÖBB ( Austrian Federal Railways ),
• ÖVB ( Austrian Transport Bureau ) and
• ÖLAG (Austrian Air Transport Company)

and subsequently also the

• KÖB (motor vehicle operation of the Austrian Federal Railways GmbH) and the
• DDSG ( First Danube Steamship Company ).

The owner and publisher was the Österreichische Wirtschaftsverlag, KG Payer & Co, Vienna I., Kramergasse 9. The publisher was Julius Ziegler from the University of World Trade in Vienna in conjunction with Josef Gruntzel and Bruno Dietrich (both also from the University of World Trade in Vienna). Karl Meithner (University of World Trade in Vienna) was the editor .

The first issue appeared in July 1933. The magazine subsequently offered interesting insights into the traffic situation in Austria, reported on historical events and anniversaries and, moreover, did not forget to take a look at the big, wide world of railways. Not only respected and well-known experts acted as authors - such as Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen and other personalities of the railway era at the time - but also "little" railway workers such as foremen, switchmen or railway workers.

After the annexation of Austria to the Greater German Reich on 12/13. From March 1938 on, the Verkehrswirtschaftliche Rundschau became a propaganda medium for the Deutsche Reichsbahn and for National Socialist ideas from April 1938 . The last edition appeared in December 1938.